Summary

On a hillside, Sean Nelson and another soldier hear machine-gun fire. They find the man with the gun and speak with him briefly. He’s taking his machine gun to join Jo Kenefick’s column. They depart from the man and go to a schoolhouse where the schoolmaster’s daughter complains about the gunfire. They find Jo Kenefick, who says he’s been looking to kill the machine-gun man. The gunner turns up a few days later. They decide to attack a nearby village and the soldiers gather together in vehicles. The battle lasts for two and a half hours. The main character’s vehicle gets struck and he must crawl under gunfire to restart it. The shooting stops as he starts up his vehicle, and he returns inside to discover that his crew has run over to the other side. He...